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In December, Lexus built its final LFA, serial number 500, roughly two years after production of the no-expenses-spared supercar began. The final car, a white Nürburgring Edition, was destined for a museum, but the penultimate Lexus LFA assembled, serial number 499, was shipped to a Unites States dealer. Autoweek explains that the steel grey-with-red-leather car was purchased by Roy Mallady as a present for his 68th birthday. It will be sharing a garage with his other Lexus LFA, which just happens to be serial number 003, the very first Lexus LFA imported into America. Packing a...
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First RC 350, Now Lexus Registers RC F TrademarkLast November it was revealed that Toyota had filed for the trademark “Lexus RC 350,” leading to speculation that this would be the name of a new model from the Japanese luxury automaker. In Lexus naming tradition, the “RC” part of the name suggested that the new model would...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
A Tale Of Two Aston Martin DB5sTie-ins to James Bond aside, the Aston Martin DB 5 is one of the most stunning luxury sport coupes of all time. That helps to explain the ongoing demand for the car, which went out of production in 1965. Original examples are getting harder to find with each passing year, which is what makes a 1964...
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Cadillac Launches Its Own Driving School, The V-Series Academy: VideoMercedes-Benz offers its customers the AMG Driving Academy, Porsche offers driver training at its “Experience Centers” and Jaguar staffs its own Performance Driving Academy. It stands to reason, then, that Cadillac would launch a driving school of its own, centered around the CTS-V line...
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2013 Aston Martin DB9 Volante: First Drive and Video Road TestWinter down south feels like a dental check-up, weeks of built-up dread punctuated just briefly by a cold finger and some mild effluvia. We chatter about it more than we chatter from it. We rail against the seldom-seen sleet. We pre-game the fleeting, fully formed flake that dares drift through the...
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Forbidden Fruit: Subaru BRZ RA RacingIf you believe that Europe and Japan get all the cool cars while we’re relegated to sloppy seconds, the newly-announced Subaru BRZ RA Racing probably won’t make you any happier. Like stripped tuner and racing versions already announced by Toyota and Subaru, the Subaru BRZ RA Racing...
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Perhaps due to the low volume built and even-smaller surviving population, Plymouth Hemi ‘Cudas are among the most valuable and sought-after cars from the muscle car era. Finding one in mint condition is a rare occurrence, and even less-than-pristine examples will price well into the six-figure range. Hagerty’s Price Guide currently puts the value of a Condition One 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda at $340,000, while a Condition Four car still rates a value of $205,000, As impressive as those numbers sound, the car’s value range in 2007 was between $1.2 million and $890,000...
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Kia Provoke Coupe Concept Teased Ahead Of Geneva Motor ShowKia has released the first images of a sporty new concept car the automaker is planning to debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The vehicle is described as a “racy new urban concept” and features the latest evolution of Kia’s tiger-nose front-end design. It's also clearly a coupe...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class Video PreviewFour body styles, plus some wicked AMG love, mean the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class is freshly revamped and ready to take on the luxury sedan competition. The E Class Sedan and Wagon both made their way onto the web before the holidays, while the Coupe and Cabriolet saw their debuts at the 2013...
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Is GM Pondering A Scion FR-S / Subaru BRZ Rival?If you’re looking for a front engine, rear drive car with some entertainment value, GM brand Chevrolet would be happy to sell you a Camaro, Corvette or (soon) an SS sedan. While the Corvette fits most enthusiasts’ definition of a sports car, its $50k starting price puts it beyond the...
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New Rolls-Royce Wraith To Debut At 2013 Geneva Motor ShowRolls-Royce has announced it's bringing a new model to the 2013 Geneva Motor Show taking place in early March. The new model will be called the Rolls-Royce Wraith, a name we haven't seen since the Silver Wraith ended production in 1959. While no other details about the Wraith have been revealed...
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BMW 4-Series Coupe Concept Video PreviewBMW is preparing to replace the 3-Series Coupe with a new 4-Series, and it brought a thinly veiled version of the new two-door to the 2013 Detroit Auto Show in the form of a 4-Series Coupe Concept. This concept features both the latest interpretation of BMW's design language, but also the latest...
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Sixty years ago today, the Chevrolet Corvette made its debut appearance at GM’s Motorama exhibit in New York City. New car introductions were a big deal then, and anxious spectators lined Park Avenue to get a look at Chevy’s futuristic roadster. Production wasn’t even planned when the car was shown, but public reception was so positive that the Corvette quickly progressed from concept car to showroom model. By July of 1953, Corvettes were being built by hand in GM’s Flint, Michigan assembly facility. Just 300 Corvette roadsters were built in 1953, all of them wearing...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Live Photos From The 2013 Detroit Auto ShowSince we’re the glass-is-half-empty sort, we’ll give you the bad news up front: you won’t be able to buy a 2014 Cadillac ELR plug-in hybrid coupe until sometime next year, although we’re sure your local Cadillac dealer would be happy to take your deposit now. We don’t...
Kurt Ernst -
2014 Cadillac ELR Preview: Guilt-Free Luxury Upstages The Chevy VoltEven if you’re not entirely a car person, you’ve likely noticed and perhaps even lusted after the stylish Cadillac CTS-V Coupe—perhaps in a way that you haven’t seen Cadillac before. Now take some of that same gravitas, and plug it in, and you get some of the essence behind...
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BMW 4-Series Coupe Concept Official Details And Live PhotosThese are the first live images of the concept version of BMW’s replacement for the 3-Series Coupe, which once again confirm the new car will be called a 4-Series as well as reaffirming our belief that BMW can still design a stunning vehicle. Clearly the design of BMW’s new 4-Series...
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Assembly Teased: VideoIn three days, Chevrolet will reveal the much-anticipated 2014 Corvette to the world, with the unveiling scheduled to take place on Sunday, January 13 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. Corvette fans don’t have much longer to wait, but that hasn’t stopped Chevrolet from releasing one last...
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2014 Nissan GT-R Mega GalleryNissan told us what we could expect from its 2014 GT-R back in November, but the automaker’s fine print was accompanied by just a handful of images. Worse, the images depicted the Japanese market car, not the version destined for these shores. The automaker has since put things to right...
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Cadillac has released the second teaser image of its upcoming 2014 ELR, an extended-range electric car with a similar powertrain to the Chevy Volt and scheduled to debut next week at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. The ELR can actually trace its roots back to the Converj concept car unveiled in 2009, which proved so popular it was almost immediately approved for production. GM’s bankruptcy at the time put those plans on hold, but then in 2011 the Converj reappeared, this time labeled the ELR. Like the Converj before it, the ELR was also a hit, and subsequently it too was almost immediately...
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Porsche Shows What It Takes To Film A Modern Car Ad: VideoFilming a car commercial used to be a relatively easy task: all it took was the car, some pretty background scenery and a chase car, since the expectations of viewers watching on a low-resolution television set weren’t all that high. Truth be told, most car ads were filmed in studios, with no...
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Jaguar's F-Type To Reposition The Jaguar XK: ReportIf you were to head down to your local Jaguar dealer today, cash in hand, the sportiest offering on the lot would be one of Jaguar’s XK series cars, in coupe or convertible variants. Even in its most potent XKR-S form, fitted with a supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 rated at 550 horsepower, the XK...
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Numbers-Matching Jaguar XKE Coupe Sells “As Is” For $7,601If you’re in the market for an early E-Type Jaguar Coupe, you know this as fact: there’s no such thing as an inexpensive example. Even cars in drivable-but-worn condition trade hands in the $25,000 price range, and concours-quality examples are now pushing $80,000. Finding a...
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Porsche 911 In ‘Motionless Driving’ VideoWe’ve just come across a video that shows one of our favorite sports cars, the Porsche 911, in a whole new light. Dubbed Motionless Driving, the video, first picked up by World Car Fans, uses light projection to create the effect of a car driving through the countryside, in sunny, cold and...
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Alfa Romeo Confirms 2013 Launch For 4C With New TeaserAlfa Romeo has promised to launch a new model next year, one it’s boasting will be the “car to end all cars.” While the automaker hasn’t mentioned exactly what car it will be, we know it will be the long-awaited 4C sports car first previewed as a concept in 2011 and recently...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran